The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) are two pieces of legislation winding their way through the process of trying to become part of the law in the United States. Both acts are aimed at reducing piracy on the internet, which sounds like a good thing. However, as they are currently [...]
Cofounder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, recently did an interview with The Daily Beast. In it, he spoke about iPhones in comparison to android phones. Surprisingly, he admitted that he believes android phones are ahead of iPhones in some ways. “My primary phone is the iPhone,” Mr. Wozniak said. “I love the beauty of it. But I wish [...]
Representing Tabletroms.com at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was Macktion & Leesa from our news team. Check out all their cool videos below.
Known as a phone manufacturer, Pantech has jumped into the tablet business with the Element. The eight-inch tablet was shown at CES 2012 last week. With it’s size, the tablet aims to hit a spot between slightly too small seven inch screens, and (to many) slightly too large to easily handle ten inch screen tablets. With 1024 [...]
Macktion, our reporter at CES 2012, has some great videos on his channel, Macktion CES Coverage – YouTube . Two of them deal with manufacturers of products to provide stands for your mobile devices, Clingo and Lifephorm. Clingo, as it’s name may suggest, uses a gel pad to provide a sticky platform which your tablet or [...]
Viewsonic has announced three new tablets at CES 2012-all three run android, but one also dual-boots with windows. Th E70 is a seven inch tablet, set to be available in March, and running Ice Cream Sandwich. Shipping with a 800 x 480 screen, 1GHZ single core processor, mini-HDMI and mini-usb ports, it also has microsd [...]
Gorilla Glass 2 Corning, maker of Gorilla Glass, has announced the second generation of it’s product. Gorilla Glass 2 is about 20% thinner than the original, yet is still as strong. Used as the outer layer in smartphones, laptops and tablets, the glass can take pressures up to 120 pounds per square inch. Reducing the [...]
At CES 2012 yesterday, Jen-Hsun Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, brought CEO of ASUS Jerry Shen onstage during his presentation. They then proceeded to announce a new seven-inch tablet, the ME370T. Using Nvidia’s Tegra3 processor, the device is slated to sell for the relatively low price of $249. There wasn’t too much else said [...]
Toshiba has announced a new tablet at CES 2012, which is pretty much the opposite of it’s Thrive tablet. The Thrive is a fairly chunky device, with full-sized ports as one of it’s selling points. The new Excite X10 is now the thinnest tablet around, at just 7.7mm. The other specifications for the tablet are [...]
Starting January 15th, Acer will have it’s newest tablet available, the Iconia A200. Although it is shipping with android Honeycomb 3.2, the company promises an Ice Cream Sandwich, android 4.0 update by February(and even notes the upgrade will be free!). The ten inch screen size, 1280 x 800 resolution tablet is possibly most notable for [...]
